In plain words
This is Bhārata. All are Bhāratīyas. What does Bhāratīya mean? Bhā: the light that shines by itself. Our forgetting that light is itself delusion. Only when we choose such a divinity full of light does the name Bhārata become meaningful. In the arts of music and literature too, this Bhāratī holds many things within it. What does Bhārata mean? Bhā: bhāva; ra: rāga; ta: tāla. That which is endowed with bhāva, rāga and tāla is Bhārata. In every field, moral, physical, dhārmic and spiritual, we must recognise the truth called Bhāratī. Born in Bhārata, people think ‘Bhārata’ means something like Rāma's younger brother. No, no. It is beyond everything. We must recognise the most sacred principle of Bhārata. The feeling of the Divine arises in us.
Embodiments of Prema! God is the embodiment of Prema. God is the embodiment of Satya. God is the embodiment of Śānti. God is full of Ānanda. We must pray to such a God, who is Ānanda, with Ānanda itself. For such a God, Sat, Cit, Ānanda is a fitting name. What does Sat mean? The eternal. We must pray to the eternal God with an eternal feeling. What does Cit mean? That which is full of Jñāna. How must this Jñāna be? It must arise spiritually. Sat must be attained through Sat itself. Cit must be attained through Cit itself. Ānanda must be attained through Ānanda itself. We must not neglect it at all out of some despair, dejection or indifference. So, to recognise the principle of God first of all, the fitting truth is Prema itself. When we worship God with Prema, He keeps giving Prema itself. ‘Yad bhāvaṃ tad bhavati’: man gains the result that fits his own feeling. In man today Prema is one thing and feeling another. Yesterday evening I taught the children a little thing. There is a flour mill. When you put wheat into this flour mill, wheat flour comes out. When you put in rice, rice flour comes out. But in this flour mill called man, if you put in fruit, it comes out as excrement.